Thread: selling out?
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Old 02-24-2010, 12:59 PM
bonweissy bonweissy is offline
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The other day I was watching TV with a bunch of friends, some where rock friends and some were not, but they all were not great fans of jovi. The video for who says you cant go home came on, (btw i loathe that song), and the part where jon blews a kiss at the end came on was followed by an obvious look of emberassment by myself. One of my friends who particularily hates jovi, said 'you have to admit, that at this stage he is definately a sell out." Sadly, I had to concede that point somewhat. Someone else said that they were always a pop band, and he never claimed to be 'hardcore', so not really. I think the way he put it was 'they were always gay posers.' My question to all of you is has bon jovi sold out and/or is it possible for them to really sell out. When I think of really selling out I think of acts like Metallica in the 90's. Guns n Roses during the Illusions(in particular I am talking about the orchestra, back up singer, and grand piano on stage), Aerosmith in the Late 80's (the barrage of love/power ballads), Jewels dance album, aswell as the Mount Everest of sellouts Chris Cornells dance album. ALthough I love aerosmith and hate calling them out twice, but their superbowl half time show needs to be mentioned.
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